The UW School of Pharmacy has created a new joint Pharmacy Management/Master’s in Health Administration (MHA) residency program to help address the acute need for management-trained pharmacists in hospitals and other patient care institutions.
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Enrollment at medical schools around the country is expected to increase by 17 percent in the next several years, according to the results of an annual survey by the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC).
Ramanan Laxminarayan, senior fellow at Resources for the Future in Washington, D.
Preserving Limbs and Surviving Limb Loss is the topic of the next UW Mini-Medical School lecture at 7 p.
Guy Palmer, professor in the Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Pathology at Washington State University (WSU), will present the WWAMI Science in Medicine Lecture on Thursday, March 8.
The 9th Annual UW Medicine Faculty Development Days take place Wednesday and Thursday, March 28-29, from 8 a.
The next Faculty Development Workshop, Tuesday, Feb.
It’s time for an update on the Leadership, Community and Values Initiative (LCVI).
RESIDENCE HALLS RATE: The UW’s Residence Hall Student Association (RHSA) has been selected as the winner of the national Student Award for Leadership Training, which is given to schools affiliated with the National Association of College and University Residence Halls.
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
Uniquely Washington is a biweekly column featuring one of the University’s most important resources — our people.
Make no mistake: UW historian John Toews studies erudite stuff: 19th-century European intellectual history — people like Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud, Felix Mendelssohn and Soren Kierkegaard.
For the first time in many years, the state Legislature appears likely to pass a budget that will reverse the trend of declining support for public higher education in general and the UW in particular.
Class Title: Urban Design and Planning 587: Preservation and the Vernacular Environment, taught by Manish Chalana.
For its eighth book talk, the UW Center for Multicultural Education will present Michael Honey, professor and historian of ethnic and labor studies in the Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences Program at UW Tacoma, and author of the book Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, King’s Last Campaign.
In a tank on the south campus, a Superman figure dangles from a plastic airplane wing.
The UW Board of Regents “took a strong stand for health and safety” when they adopted permanent rules at their January meeting that make all UW campuses smoke free, said Karen VanDusen, director of Environmental Health and Safety.
A conference this week honors Joel Migdal, recipient of the Marsha L.
The Studio Jazz Ensemble will perform work by Quincy Jones and and the Percussion Ensemble will present a concert titled Winter Beat in coming events sponsored by the UW School of Music.
Graduate and Professional Education Week, Feb.
Violinist Ani Kavafian, renowned as a soloist, chamber musician, and teacher, will perform with the University Symphony at 7:30 p.
Research focusing on institutions, people and tradeoffs when it comes to ocean policy has earned Patrick Christie, UW assistant professor of marine affairs and international studies, one of five Pew Fellowships in Marine Conservation awarded by the Pew Institute for Ocean Sciences.
One day some years ago, Tracy Kidder hiked five hours through the steep, barren mountains of Haiti with Dr.
What exactly does “contemporary” mean?
That was the first question curators of the Burke Museum’s new exhibit, In the Spirit of the Ancestors: Contemporary Northwest Coast Art, mulled over as they began choosing items from the permanent collection for display.
ROOTS, an emergency shelter for young adults located in the U District, is in desperate need of volunteers during spring break.
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Nancy Bell Evans Center on Nonprofits & Philanthropy: Call for Proposals
As part of our ongoing effort to stimulate University-wide research and teaching on the nonprofit and philanthropic sector, the Nancy Bell Evans Center on Nonprofits & Philanthropy is offering grants to UW faculty and graduate students for research in these areas.
The UW Dance Program will present its annual Dance Majors Concert March 1–4 in Meany Studio Theater.
The UW School of Drama will present Caryl Churchill’s, Mad Forest, directed by Scott Hafso, Feb.
They hail from as far away as Ghana and Kazakhstan and have seen firsthand how pollution and poverty have ravaged their homelands.
An international team of researchers from 19 countries has identified one gene and a previously unidentified region of another chromosome as the location of another gene that may contribute to a child’s chances of having autism.
Even at the best of times, the West’s water supplies are fraught with political, economic and environmental wrangling.
A palliative care family conference program developed at Harborview Medical Center improves communication between family members and clinicians, and helps reduce some of the symptoms related to the trauma of a loved one’s death, according to a study in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Ramanan Laxminarayan, senior fellow at Resources for the Future in Washington, D.
The Keck Microscopy Facility will hold an open house, Friday, Feb.
The stack of proposals is about 4 inches thick — ideas from 38 UW units interested in space in the recently purchased UW Tower, or space that might become available on the Seattle campus if a unit moved all or part of itself to the tower.
Look around any organization and chances are you’ll be able to find at least one person whose negative behavior affects the rest of the group to varying degrees.
At the same time that its faculty and staff members have been helping the state look to the future concerning working forests and the potential for biofuels from woody debris, the UW’s College of Forest Resources kicked off a year-long celebration of its 100th anniversary.
Two-winged insects such as houseflies and mosquitoes that are active during the light of day rely on their vision for flight control, but they also get help from organs called halteres, which grow where a second set of wings might otherwise be found and aid in navigation.